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No. MEAN Patented Jan. 30, I900. R. WARNER, in;

GLOVE.

(Application filed Apr. 26, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,181, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed April 26, 1899. Serial No. 714,481. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN WARNER, Jr. a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented an Improvementin Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gloves.

My object is to prevent discoloration and injury by perspiration to the kid or other material of which the glove is made. I accomplish this object by lining such kid or other material with both an absorbent and a waterproof material, preferably consisting of a thin cotton, linen, or silk fabric in combination with a film of rubber.

The hands of many people are usually so moist that thin and delicately colored gloves are discolored and ruined after being worn but a short time. In the art of glove making as heretofore practiced no means to prevent quick destruction from this cause have been adopted. I am of course aware that lined gloves have been in common use; but the object and function of the lining has heretofore been to increase the warmth of the glove or to improve its finish. If in any case waterproofing has been used in gloves, its function has been to exclude external moisture, and nothing of the kind has ever been adapted to use in dress-kid or other light gloves. In practice I find it desirable to manufacture the glove with the textile side of the lining toward the hand and the rubber coating next to the kid. It is obvious that the glove may thus be put on or taken off with greater ease and comfort to the wearer than would be the case if the rubber facing were to touch the flesh. The textile fabrics named also serve as absorbents of the perspiration.

I have found it practicable to produce these linings so thin and light as to but slightly increase the thickness, weight, and warmth of the glove. As most of the damage is caused by the perspiration from the inside of the hand, I can also attain my object by omitting the lining from the back of the glove and lining the palm and inside of the fingers and thumb.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved glove, a portion being broken away to more clearly show the waterproof and absorbent linings. Fig.

2 is a detail cross-section of the material constituting the glove, showing the kid or outer surface of the glove and the absorbent and waterproof linings.

In the drawings, let A represent my improved glove, made of kid or other suitable material, and B the lining. As has been stated, the linings are composed of the ab sorbent fabric 0 and the Waterproof film of rubber or other suitable material D. This double liningis in the manufacture of gloves stitched to the kid at the same time and as a part of the same operation which forms the glove in the manner now customary in the art of glove-making. If desired, the connection between the glove proper and the lining may be made by adhesion by the use of rubber cement or otherwise.

Without departure from the principle which I have applied the absorbent and waterproof substances may be inserted as integral parts of the same material'or as two linings.

The word kid in the claims is used inits trade sense as applied to gloves and includes all thin leathers whether made from goat, lamb, dog, or other similar skins. The words vegetable fabric and vegetable textile applied to linings include not only cotton and linen, but also seric stuffs like silk produoed by cocoon-spinning insects.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a kid glove having a lining, consisting of an absorbent fabric 0, and a moistureproof film D, as shown, and for the purposes specified.

2. A kid glove having on its inner side, first a film of moisture-proof material and then a lining of vegetable textile fabric, for the purposes specified.

3. A kid glove, having a lining, consisting of an absorbent and moisture-proof vegetable fabric suitably attached to the glove, for the purposes specified.

4. A kid glove, With a thin absorbent lining of vegetable fabric coated with rubber, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses this 21st day of April, 1899.

REUBEN IVARNER, JR. Witnesses:

JOHN E. STRYKER, L. E. WIcKMAN. 

